Happy Thanksgiving!

Wishing you and yours the happiest of Thanksgivings today. Stay safe, enjoy each other, and we’ll see you this weekend for all the Black Friday/Small Biz Saturday happenings… ‘Til then, eat up, drink up, read up!

FREE SHIPPING NOW THRU MONDAY!!!

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November 26-27 @ 9:00 am – 6:00 pm
Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St.
Summerville, SC + Google Map

‘Tis the season to shop small! Join us this BLACK FRIDAY (tomorrow 9 am – 6 pm) and Small Business Saturday (November 27th 9 a.m. – 6 p.m.) for deals, steals and lots of local holiday spirit! Here’s a sneak peek at store happenings and specials for you, with plenty more taking place all around the square all day long: Find out more »

Wrapping Up November with Summerville’s Tree Lighting and Live Window Displays!

November 30 @ 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Join the Town of Summerville for the annual Town of Summerville Tree Lighting Ceremony! This celebration includes pictures with Santa, the countdown and lighting ceremony, letters to Santa, live window displays, and more holiday fun, plus TREATS at Main Street Reads! We’re still deciding what our live window display should be this year – if you have ideas, let us know! The last two years we did “Little Women” but we’re doing something new this year…Find out more »

Rotary “Wheel Wednesday”

December 1 @ 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St.
Summerville, SC + Google Map

Rotarians and friends enjoy discounts STOREWIDE all day Wednesday AND 10% of ALL Main Street Reads sales will be donated to Summerville Rotary Club. Did You Know? The Summerville Rotary Club is big into literacy initiatives, teachers, students and young readers, just like Main Street Reads! Summerville Rotary Club gives new books to new moms after delivery at Summerville Medical Center? Summerville Rotary Club awards teachers and students throughout the school year. Summerville Rotary Club, with the help of Main…Find out more »

Historic Downtown Dessert Stroll

December 3 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St.
Summerville, SC + Google Map

What a FUN way to extend shopping hours on a Friday night! We, along with more than a dozen other downtown stores, will be open late on Friday December 3rd to share some sweets and community spirit. Stop by for your sweet surprise and get a book buck towards any purchase! HINT: Watch for special signed copies of great books – they make the perfect thoughtful gift…Find out more »

Booksigning: Robert Maniscalco’s
The Power of Positive Painting

December 4 @ 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St.
Summerville, SC 29483 + Google Map

oin us on December 4th for a fun signing with Robert Maniscalco and his recent release, The Power of Positive Painting: A Positive, Value-based System of Drawing and Painting. The perfect gift for the artist or aspiring artist in your life, readers will learn the secrets of the masters, to draw and paint what they see; how to interpret the visual realm by distilling the essences of form; to create works of art that seem to be living and breathing.…Find out more »

December Thriller Bookclub:
Her Name is Knight by Yasmin Angoe

December 9 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St.
Summerville, SC + Google Map

We’re thrilled to bring you an amazing thriller this month, Her Name Is Knight. Yasmin Angoe was on hand to sign copies in November and we’ll make sure to still have a few – Signed copies will be 10% off! A smash debut novel from rising star Yasmin Angoe, Her Name Is Knight features an elite assassin heroine on a mission to topple a human trafficking ring and avenge her family. Stolen from her Ghanaian village as a child, Nena…Find out more »

Launch Party: Promise by Regina E. Williams

December 11 @ 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St.
Summerville, SC + Google Map

We invite you to join us for a special book launch and book-signing with Summerville’s own newest debut author Regina E. Williams for a story collection that will have you laughing, have you crying, but most of all… have you thinking. We come into this life knowing what brings us pleasure and pain; what we want and need. We are then taught to distrust what we know. It is only in the university of life that we slowly regain our…Find out more »

Summerville Holiday Parade

December 12 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St.
Summerville, SC + Google Map

One of our favorite events each year, the downtown Christmas parade! We’ll have a limited # of chairs parked outside the store and will have our usual hot cocoa and candy canes giveaway – when the event gets closer we’ll post a link to reserve your spot early!Find out more »

Booksigning: Ruthie Landis with My Musings

December 16 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St.
Summerville, SC + Google Map

A very special Third Thursday this month as we welcome Ruthie Landis to the bookstore (and owner Shari Stauch celebrates her birthday!) You may remember Chicago’s brilliant Ruthie Landis from previous signings (Beyond the Bookclub, Acting Lessons for Living). We’re over the moon thrilled that she’s coming back, this time with My Musings – a book EVERYONE should carry around with them, all the time! A perfect gift for anyone you love – and you can grab a signed copy…Find out more »

Meet the Author! Charryse Johnson Booksigning!

December 18 @ 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St.
Summerville, SC + Google Map

We’re thrilled to welcome Charlotte-based author, psychotherapist and mindfulness practitioner Charryse Johnson on December 18th, when she’ll personally autograph copies of her recent release, the inspired and inspiring Expired Mindsets. There is a wealth of potential trapped within our hidden and unresolved places of pain. Yet, without conscious participation, we can become stuck in a cycle of repetitive patterns that leaves us feeling like an imposter in our own lives. In Expired Mindsets, Charryse Johnson, gives readers both the courage and the…Find out more »

December Living Large Bookclub: Cloud Cuckoo Land

December 21 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St.
Summerville, SC + Google Map

The book everyone’s raving about, Cloud Cuckoo Land, by Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See. Join us for some fun discussion at our last bestsellers club meeting of 2021. We’ll have plenty to chat about, plus you can help us pick the next few months’ selections! “If you’re looking for a superb novel, look no further.” –The Washington Post The instant New York Times bestseller and finalist for the 2021 National Book Award is “wildly inventive,…Find out more »

December Pulpwood Queens Bookclub:
The Quisling Factor

December 28 @ 6:30 pm
Main Street Reads, 115 S. Main St.
Summerville, SC + Google Map

Join us for the last Pulpwood Queens book club event of the year – and enjoy a cup of cheer with us as well as a chat via Zoom with the author! We’re meeting on Tuesday this month (due to Christmas happening on the 4th Thursday!) and we look forward to seeing you. The Quisling Factor is the newest novel from brilliant historical fiction author J.L. Oakley. Treason. Espionage. Revenge. In the aftermath of WWII, ex-intelligence agent Tore Haugland tries…Find out more »